Re: commitfest.postgresql.org is no longer fit for purpose

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: commitfest.postgresql.org is no longer fit for purpose
Date: 2024-05-17 15:05:42
Message-ID: 2397278.1715958342@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 10:31 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> If we go back to the old its-development-mode-all-the-time approach,
>> what is likely to happen is that the commit rate for not-your-own-
>> patches goes to zero, because it's always possible to rationalize
>> your own stuff as being more important.

> We already have gone back to that model. We just haven't admitted it
> yet. And we're never going to get out of it until we find a way to get
> the contents of the CommitFest application down to a more reasonable
> size and level of complexity. There's just no way everyone's up for
> that level of pain. I'm not sure not up for that level of pain.

Yeah, we clearly need to get the patch list to a point of
manageability, but I don't agree that abandoning time-boxed CFs
will improve anything.

regards, tom lane

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